Tag: Fairy tales
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Fairy Tales Around the World: An Audiobook List
This is something a little different for me. Fans of my Book Lists know that usually I’m all about the printed word, on paper or electronic. My personal preference is to read, since most audio fiction makes me feel like I’m drowning in molasses. I just read too quickly to listen to fiction in audio.…
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Forbidden Puppies
Well, actually, that should be forbidden fruit, since that’s what the post is about: things we really really want, but can’t and shouldn’t have. In the old fairy tales, it was the garden over the wall that Rapunzel’s mother craved, leading to her husband becoming a thief, and her daughter being sold in return for…
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Fantastic Illustrations
As a companion piece to my Mad Genius Club post on a century of Fantasy in prose, here are some illustrations from the two oldest books I used, the 1890 Andrew Lang Red Fairy Book, and the 1920 edition of Arabian Nights.
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Review: Grimm Legacy
I picked up a copy of The Grimm Legacy after meeting the author, Addie J King, at Millennicon this spring. I’d heard her talk on panels and in a reading we were both at, about the characters, and especially the 400-year old talking frog prince… I think that alone sold me on wanting this book.…
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Cheap Story!
My top selling short story is on sale for 50% off! If you enjoy retellings of fairy tales, then you might enjoy Little Red and the Wolf-Man. I grew up reading Russian fairy tales, and this was born out of a love of those stories, my red cardinal cloak, and a desire for a story…
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ASM Review is Up
My Monday post at Amazing Stories Magazine is up, the full review of the anthology I read for them. In other news, I’m prepping a sale on a couple of my stories. One will be free later this week, and one will be 50% off! Keep your eyes on Little Red and the Wolf-Man, and…